NOTIFICATION

The following submission, dated 30 March 2025, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of India. The notification concerns domestic support commitments (Table DS:1 and the relevant supporting tables) for the Marketing Year 2023/2024.

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In addition to the DS:1 notification, this submission also contains India's notification pursuant to the Bali Ministerial Decision on Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes (_WT/MIN(13)/38) and the General Council Decision (_WT/L/939). India notifies the Committee on Agriculture that it has exceeded the de minimis limit specified under Article 7.2(b) of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) for rice, a traditional staple food crop, for the marketing year 2023-2024. The de minimis level for rice has been exceeded pursuant to the support provided through public stockholding programmes for food security purposes ('PSH programmes'), which were in existence as of the date of the Bali Ministerial Decision on Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes (_WT/MIN(13)/38). India has fulfilled and continues to fulfil its domestic support notification requirements under the AoA in accordance with document _G/AG/2 of 30 June 1995, including in respect of its PSH programmes. The stocks under the programme are acquired and released in order to meet the domestic food security needs of India's poor and vulnerable population, and not to distort trade or adversely affect the food security of other Members. For these reasons, the breach of the de minimis limit for rice is covered by the peace clause set out in the Bali Ministerial Decision on Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes (_WT/MIN(13)/38) and the General Council Decision (_WT/L/939).

India's domestic support notification for 2023-24 under _G/AG/2, as well as additional information pursuant to paragraph 3 of the Bali Ministerial Decision in respect of the PSH programme for rice, is provided hereunder.